The Penn's Grove record., 1887-12-03
PENIS GROVE. N. j. SATURDAY. DECEMBER B. 1887.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

NEWS OF THE WEEK..
The second section Of a freight
train on the Cincinnati, Hamilton and
Dayton Railroad ran into the first Sec
tiOn at Anna Station, twenty miles
south of Lima, Ohio, on the morning
OF the oath. The fireman of one of the
sections was killed, and twenty freight
d r and both engines we're wrecked.
The loss is placed at SOC, 600.
There was q riot on Bedford av-
enue, Pittsburg, on the evening Of the
24th, between "the notorious Owl
gang'' and about twenty-five Italians.
Tie Fighting began in q saloon kept by
an Italian, and stones, pistols and
knives were used. Two men were
shot and twelve or. fifteen others cut
and bruised. but nc one was killed.
Within the last few days, accord
irg to a telegram from Cleveland,
| Ohio, the Bee Line Railroad has built
twenty-five freight cars equipped with
the Westinghouse air-brake. On the
18th an experiment was made between
Cleveland and Berea. Speed all the
way from four to twenty-five miles an
hour was made, and the long train was
checked at all the degrees. Generally
the stops were made In from five to
twenty seconds. Several times the
train was brought to a standstiil from
a twenty-mile rate in half a dozen car
lengths. The brake differs from that
of a passenger brake in having the
chamber and valve joined together, in
stead of being placed on opposite sides
of the "a
LENA Wolfcale. % years old, died
on the oath, at her home in Youngs-
town, Ohio, from the effects of a dose
of morphine. 1t is said she was disap-
pointed in love. Frank Feicht, ex-
street commissioner of Dayton, Ohio,
attempted suicide on the oath, by cut
ing an artery in his left wrist, and is in
a critical condition. He had been on a
drunken spree.
Il. X. Shaw, a farmer living neal
Romeo, Michigan. was found dead In
the woods on the 25th. On the 23d he
had sold $500 worth Of wheat in Ro-
meo, and had been missing since that
time.
While Il vessel was being loaded
with coal at Baltimore on the 25th, the
chain which held the cars broke and
three coal hoppers fell from the pier to
the vessels deck. Patrick Morgan was
Killed and John Drexel severely in
jured Evan Roberts, Of Drifton, one
of the strikers who found employment
IN Shaft No. l of the Susquehanna Coal
Company, at Nanticoke, a week ago,
was on the 25th struck and killed by q
trip car going up the shaft. He was 35
years of age and leaves a wife and
eight children. Susan White and Susan
Carmedy vas u Over and killed while
walking On the railroad track at Fitch
burg, Massachusetts,, on the 23d.
Three cars Of a freight train on
the Georgia Pacific Railroad ran off
the track f~ifty.seven miles east Of Co.
lumbus on the 25th, and fell from a
trestle bridge into a small stream. Four
railroad hands and a negro who was
stealing a ride sustained severe In
Sisk, is not expected to recover
Two freight trains on the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad collided near
Pittsburg, on the morning of the 25th.
Both trains we're almost completely
demolished. Three men were killed
and five injured, two dangerously.
There appears to have been no orders
as to which train was to lay over at
Finleyville for the other to pass. The
trains were running at a high rate Of
speed. The company claims that the
telegraph operator at Finleyville failed
to deliver orders. There vas a collision
between freight trains on the Sbamokin
and Lewisburg branch Of the Reading
Railroad, q Milton, Penna., Cd the
18th. The accident happened on Q
bridge crossing the S~usquehanna canal,
and the conclusion was so great that
both locomotives were thrown into the
water, twenty feet below. Ten or if
teen cars were also wrecked, and the
bridge was badly damaged. The
dispatches failed to state whether or
not any person was killed OF injured.
Fires are raging in the the forests
east and west of Staunt0n, Virginia,
and are doing great damage to timber.
Rain fell throughout Northern Texas,
on the evening of the Oath. This is
the first rainfall Of any consequence
for nearly three months. Forest fires in
the vicinity of Southwest Arkansas are
being extinguished. A telegram from
Hillsboro, Illinois, says the forest fires
have done much good as we'll as great
damage. They have destroyed the
myrlsds OF chinch bugs that ruined the
corn crop last season. Before the fires
started the woods and fields were
literally swarming with chinch bugs.
"A heated journal caused an explo-
sion of dust IN the large Touring mill
of T. Ault i Son, in Bellaire. Ohio, Cd
the Oath, and the mill was nearly de-
str0yed, with all Its contents.
"A circular vas on the 22d issued
from Commissioner Fink's office, In
New York, announcing a reduction oil
rates ON dressed meats and live stock
to take effect from date, as follows:
Chicago to New York, 100 lbs. dressed
beef, dressed sheep and articles loaded
in refrigerator cars with dressed beef.
42t cents; dressed hogs, in refrigerator
car with dressed beef. 42f cents; dressed
hogs in common cars, 80 cents; live
cattle, 23 cents; live sheep. 26 cents.
Three children OF Mr.. and Mrs. G.
o. White, aged 8, IL and 10 years,
were drowned at Morrison, Illinois, on
the Goth while playing with their sleds
on the thin ice on Rock creek. One
broke through and the others were
drowned while trying to rescue him.
"A building in Wausau, Wisconsin,
occupied as a residence by Carl Hen.
Ikel, his wife and Eve children, was de-
stroyed by fire early on the morning OF
the Goth, and before assistance could
reach them three of the children per
ished, and the other two and the father
died in a short time of their injuries.
Mrs. Henikel is severely injured, and 1t
is feared that il she lives she will be
hopelessly insane. The buiding was q
wooden structure, double boarded,
filed In with sawdust and very in.
Hammable. Mrs. Martin and her two
children, who lived in a small log cabih